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...Mimas, for example, will be named for characters from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur; the recently photographed fissures on Enceladus, for those from the Arabian Nights; features on Tethys, for those from Homer's Odyssey. Yet even so seemingly innocuous a task can bog down in politics. The Soviets like to name newly discovered asteroids after revolutionary heroes. Last summer U.S. and West European astronomers countered by naming one after dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov...
Nonetheless, there are several problems with Mismeasure. When he departs from his string of examples and analyses and attempts to philosophize or use high-level technical terminology, the book loses its punch. His statistical sections demand too much from a popular audience and bog down the narrative, especially in his discourses on linear algebra. When he sticks to careful analysis of the I.Q. examiners, he is on much more solid ground...
Administration strategists are keenly aware that if every committee in Congress is asked to approve reductions in its pet programs, the budget-cutting drive may bog down in a hopeless tangle. Said Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin: "The way this town works, a lot of the turkeys will be salvaged and useful programs will be gutted." Accordingly, Reagan's legislative aides tentatively decided last week to wrap almost all of the program into four superbills. They are: the tax bill; a "recision" bill ordering reductions of $13 billion in spending for the remainder of fiscal 1981, which ends...
...hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women. Questions of aesthetics then dissolve, and one is left with a lumbering clash of stereotypes in an ideological bog...
...must act in risky situations on the confidence in his own judgment. He has a responsibility to society not to overstrain its fabric, but he must push it to the limits. He must define that margin where he can influence events. If he exceeds the margin he may bog down. If he goes below the margin he may become irrelevant. If he allows it, the public will project its own insecurities on a leader. Politics is the management of people. It is important to understand the psychology as well as the symptoms of problems...